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GLOIH GU'TTING MACHINE. 4 No. 369,466. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

INVBNTOR ATTORNBYS.

JNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS W. PABSHALL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLOTH-CUTTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION orming part of Letters Patent No. 369,466. dated September 6, 1887.

Application filed January 2'2, 1887. Serial No. 225,099. (No model.)

.To all witam it may concern: I

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. PARsHALL, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cloth-Outter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to devices of that class used to cut cloth or textiles while manufacturing clothing or other goods or fabrics; and the invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective device of this Character.

The inveution consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the cloth-cutter, all as hereinafter fully describd and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front sectional elevation of my improved cloth-cutter. Fig. 2 is a side view of the cutter, partly broken away and in section. Fig. 3.is a plan view in horizontal section on the line x w, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4E is a rear elevation'of the top or head portion of the machine.

The cutter is made with a foot-piece or base, A, which is connected rigidly by-the grooved or E- shaped knife-guide B, with a head or top piece, O. In'the base A there is journaled a roller or pulley, D, around which the endless knife-blade or cutter E is passed, and the knife, after passing upward through the guide B, passes around a pulley, F, `journaled in the head-piece O.

A lower pair of anti-friction guide-rollers, G G, are journaled in the base A, directly over the pulley D, in such positions that the knife E passes from the pulley between the rollers, which hold the opposite sides of the endless knife snugly to each other flatwise, and a like pair of anti-friction rollers, H H, arranged in the head-piece O, hold the opposite sides of the knife E closely together. These upper guid e-rollers, H H, are j ournaled in plates IpI, which are held by screws J J to theopposite or front and rear faces of the head-piece O, said screws passing through slots '5, made in the plates I, and the Journals h of the rollers ning from any convenient prime motor or imparting a continuous rapid revolution to the endless knife around the pulleys D F, and cause those parts of the knife passing through the guide B between the upper and lower roller's, G H, to move in opposite directions. The knife-blade is sharpened wholly from its outer face, as shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings,thereby forming an extremely thin Cutting-edge to the knife, which is really formed of two'very sharp thin cutting-edges running swiftly in opposite directions. i

A handle, M, screwed or otherwise fastened to the head-piece O, is to be grasped by the operator to guide the machine to its work. i

The pulleys D F have rear edge flanges to hold the moving knife E on them and take the thrust ineident to the back-pressure of theknife when Cutting.

The base A is made hollow to secure lightness, and its uppei'surface slopes off all around toward its margin, which is quite sharp or thin to allow the base to be slipped readily beneath a pile of cloth laid on a tableto bew cut. The entire machine will be as light as is consistent with necessary' strength, to allow it to be easily handled for guiding the endless knife to the outlines or patterns marked out' or laid on the cloth to be cut.

In using the machine the handle M will be grasped firmly, and, as the knife E is rapidly moved around the pulleys D F, the base A will be slipped under the cloth, and the edge of the knife will be presented to the marked patterns, and by pressing the blade to the work the knife will sever the cloth easily, as the running of one side of the knife in a direction opposite to that in which its other side is moving causes the knife to act with a shear-cut, which is very effective.

It is obvious that the upper pulley, F, may be operated in any approved way-Ras, for in- IDQ "herein set forth.

2. A cloth-cutter made with an endless knife having .a plain or continuous cutting-edge sharpened from the outer face of the blade and running over guides on a suitable support, and with its op posite sides adapted to move closely together face to face in opposite directious where presented to the work, and a handle fitted to the support for guiding the knife to the work, substantially as herein described.

3. A cloth-cutter made with an endless knife having a plain or continuous cutting-edge sharpened from the outer face of the blade and running'over pulleys journaled in a suitable Support, in combination With guide-rollers holding the opposite sides of the-knife closely together face to face where presented to the work, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, in a cloth-cutter, of a base, A, head-piece O, and slotted guide B, pulleys D F, journaled in the base and headpiece,'and rollers G H, journaled next the pulleys D F, respectively, and holding the opposite sides of thek'nifel closely together face to face, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

5. The combination, in a cloth-cutter, of a base, A, and head-piece O, connected by a slotted guide, B, pulleys E F,-journaled in the base and head-piece, respectively, an endless knife, E, running over the pulleys and through the guide, rollers G G, jonrnaled in the base and holding thevopposite sidesof the knifetogether thereat, and rollers H H, journaled iu adjustable plates I I, held to the head-piece and holding the opposite sides of the knife together` at the head'piece,v substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

THOMAS VV. PARSHALL.

W'itnesses:

H. H. SKINNER, H. B. DALLsMoRE. 

